yes the power usage is different, but the card always runs that hot, it's the fan speed that changes.
and when power consumption is very low, it means the algo is not well optimised ;-)
and when power consumption is very low, it means the algo is not well optimised ;-)
Well I'm not good in programming, but anyway Scrypt hashrate is 10 times slower than X11 on my GPU for example, but it runs hot.
scrypt is one of the best optimized algos out there.
that's why it runs hot.
it hashes slower than x11 because tha algo is inherently slower.
a single hash takes more instructions and, more importantly, memory accesses.
when groestlcoin came out, its power consumption was very low.
the kernel was so slow it is now 3x faster and power consumption has gone up to the same level as other algos, like keccak for example.
Hm... need to check updates for ccminer.
Hopefully KBomba's Compute 2.1 version of the ccminer gets Lyra2RE support.
I'm ready to tip some reasonable amount of LYB out of my pocket for someone doing that.
Don't want to tell everything in advance just to prevent failing.
